Showing posts with label the one percent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the one percent. Show all posts

Monday, 10 December 2018

GQ: Billionaires Are the Leading Cause of Climate Change

After the Paradise fires
This week, the United Nations released a damning report. The short version: We have about 12 years to actually do something to prevent the worst aspects of climate change. That is, not to prevent climate change—we're well past that point—but to prevent the worst, most catastrophic elements of it from wreaking havoc on the world's population. To do that, the governments of Earth need to look seriously at the forces driving it. And an honest assessment of how we got here lays the blame squarely at the feet of the 1 percent.